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Wikipedia at 25
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In the Wikimedia movement there is always a lot of activity happening around the world, and the GLAM Community is no exception!
ICYMI — on 27 January there were four amazing presentations during the Global GLAM Call. We learned about current Wikidata RFC’s that are directly related to GLAM activities in the Wikimedia movement, as well as a new community group focused on archiving news media on Wikimedia projects. Then there was an introduction to the Content Partnerships Hub Metabase project which aims to organize information about the Wikimedia movement and make it more useful, as well as a discussion with the WMF Global Resource Distribution Committee about thematic funding. More details are on the event page.
Open Calls
Call for topics! Do you have a topic in mind, something you would like to present or discuss with the international GLAM community? Submit your proposal or request via the agenda form for an upcoming Global GLAM Call.
Call for hosts! Would you like to join the group of Global GLAM Call organizers, and host an upcoming call this year? Reach out via the contact form.
Both forms are here on Meta-wiki.
Next call 24 February 8:00 UTC
Pap-Wikipedia Turns 20: A Milestone for Papiamento/u Knowledge
Pap-Wikipedia, the Papiamento/U edition of Wikipedia, will celebrate its 20-year anniversary in March 2026. It is a shared platform where the two variants of the creole language Papiamento and Papiamentu are used side by side. These languages are spoken across the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, making Pap-Wikipedia a truly regional space for knowledge and diverse cultural representation.
To mark this important milestone, the Wikipedia on Aruba project will organize educational activities on the island of Aruba, aimed at highlighting the pap-wikipedia platform and promoting the use of Papiamento to document, share, and preserve knowledge for our Papiamento speaking community.
On 27 November 2025, Pap-Wikipedia reached another major achievement: 5,000 articles, a testament to the dedication, passion, and hard work of its volunteer contributors. This milestone reflects the strength of our community and the growing presence of Papiamento and Papiamentu within the global knowledge ecosystem.
Open Knowledge for the Papiamento Community
Since the start of the project, the team of Wikipedia on Aruba has been creating instructional articles and videos for the Papiamento-speaking community. The community can freely use our open-source materials, which include past PowerPoint presentations and instruction videos. In addition, articles from the Wikimedia Netherlands knowledge platform are translated from Dutch into Papiamento, helping users strengthen their knowledge and learn how to effectively use Wikimedia platforms.
Winners of Wikiloves Monuments Aruba
Last October, enthusiastic volunteer photographers took part in Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba 2025. This annual competition aims to document Aruba’s protected monuments through photography. The 2025 edition was organized by the Wikipedia on Aruba project in collaboration with the Monument Fund Aruba. A total of 154 photographs were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
We are delighted to announce the winners, who captured truly outstanding images. We also extend our sincere appreciation to all participants who contributed to the success of this year’s competition. We invite the global Wiki community to explore, share, and celebrate these remarkable contributions. Winners.
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Bathroom Cas Debrot — Dalopezschipper
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One of the jury members present at the event.
Celebrando el día del dominio público 2026/Celebrating the public domain day 2026
(En español a continuación)
Celebrating Public Domain Day 2026
This year for the first time we have not one, but two institutions celebrating Public Domain Day: along with the already traditional celebration by the National Library of Colombia, we now have the celebration by The Cultural Network of Bank of the Republic of Colombia. For this reason, we are already opening data in our project Visualizing the Colombian Public Domain so that there is more free Colombian content available to everyone. If you want to join this celebration, you can view the participation guides or join the Wikimedia Colombia Telegram, indicating that you want to participate.
New WikiProject about Museums of Colombia
We have created the WikiProject Museums of Colombia, to identify and update data about the country's museums in Wikidata. This WikiProject joins other WikiProjects in Wikidata in Colombia such as Literary Bogotá in data, the Directory of libraries and governmental documentation centers of Bogotá, Highlighting the Colombian public domain, Scientific trajectories of female rectors of Colombian universities and Musical artists in Colombia.
Celebrando el día del dominio público 2026
Este año por primera vez tenemos no una, sino dos instituciones celebrando el día del dominio público: junto con la ya habitual celebración de la biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, ahora contamos con la celebración de La red cultural del Banco de la República de Colombia. Por tal motivo, ya estamos abriendo datos en nuestro proyecto Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano para que haya más contenido libre colombiano a disposición de todas. Si quieres unirte a esta celebración, puedes ver las guías de participación o sumarte al Telegram de Wikimedia Colombia, indicando que quieres participar.
Nuevo Wikiproyecto sobre museos de Colombia
Hemos creado el Wikiproyecto Museos de Colombia, para identificar y actualizar los datos de los museos del país en Wikidata. Este Wikiproyecto se une a otros Wikiproyectos en Wikidata en Colombia como Bogotá literaria en datos, el Directorio de bibliotecas y centros de documentación gubernamentales de Bogotá, Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano, Trayectorias científicas de rectoras de universidades colombianas y el de Artistas musicales en Colombia.
Wikipedia's Birthday in France
Wikipedia's 25th Birthday at the University of Pau Library
Wikipedia games, shortbread cookies decorated with Wikipedia letters, explanations about open science and Wikimedia projects, a guestbook over tea and coffee: the University of Pau celebrated Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The event concluded with a viewing party of the international event.
Lyon Municipal Archives Celebrate Wikipedia's 25th Birthday
On January 15th, the Lyon Municipal Archives organized an edit-a-thon on the theme of architecture. Its unique feature: people from other Lyon departments came to learn about contributing. Nearly 300 images were added to Wikimedia Commons, 6 articles were created on Wikipedia, and about sixty were edited. Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
Gifted by our friends: Loads of presents for Wikipedia25 by German and Austrian GLAMs
25 years Wikipedia – 25 Gifts
(A birthday gift for the world)
Of course this month was focused on Wikipedia25. The media coverage was overwhelming. And this author made sure that our GLAM activities were also properly highlighted: 25 Jahre Wikipedia: Wikipedian Rainer Halama in our local museum (skip to minute 5:50)
We have made an incredible progress in these last 25 years when it comes to cooperation with GLAM-Institutions. Forgotten are the times of lawsuits against Commons-photographers in museums. Discussions about freedom of panorama in castle gardens.
We volunteers profited greatly from the lobby work done by our chapters. Yes, we provide the content, we have the ideas for projects, but as individuals, with funny user-names we often lack the reputation or respect from the curators and managers in institutions. And as our projects and its scopes widened in these last 25 years so did our demand for open access. Gone are the days of scans from catalogues and own photography in museums is still necessary, but the institutions are fastly opening up. Bigger ones leading the way, taking the national and international associations along. And that is where it helps to negotiate as Wikipedia and not as an individual Wikipedian.
So when Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia Austria invited the institutions we have been working with in these last 25 years to join our birthday party, they enticed them to contribute this wonderful diverse package of presents. And all of these presents came with wonderful greetings and congratulatory messages highlighting what we have achieved together so far and where we want to continue in the future.
You can see the complete list of participants, their messages (in German only, unfortunately) and their contributions in this list: Wikipedia:25 Jahre Wikipedia/Geschenke. The list is still growing.
GLAM on Tour - KulTour - GLAM digital
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On the 19th of January we had a GLAM digital event with the Museum Barberini followed by an on-site KulTour on site the following weekend. A high-profile exhibition on the Unicorn
These two events are a good example of fruitful and sustainable cooperations with GLAM institutions in the the German speaking community (DACH). They date back to 2013. A GLAM on Tour is a weekend - total immersion -event, with curated tours, edit-a thon and photo session. A KulTour, is a smaller, half to one day event with curated tours. GLAM-digital started out in the pandemic, when on site events weren't possible. They have now become a regular, almost monthly feature that allow for a very efficient way to get institutions in touch with our GLAM-community.
We had a first Zoom meeting with the Barberini in May 2021. They introduced us to their impressionist collection and our volunteers got hooked and produced results. Enough to get both the institution and the volunteers enthused enough to follow up with a GLAM on Tour weekend. We even streamed part of it. What helped,is that in the preparatory phase we already collected what was available in our Wikiverse (including other language versions of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons) This page initially looked way more red-linked and tabels empty. This Page and the Documentation page were still edited more than two years later.
One difficulty in keeping up sustainable relationships with institutions is that we as volunteers cooperate with trainees in the institutions. We know how difficult it is in the Wikiverse to stick with a theme with all the distractions and rabbit-holes there are. But also the trainees are mostly on temporary employment, so well established contacts often just dissolve. Here again the contacts between our Chapters and the management level of the institutions help to insure continuity.
So this time we had a well visited on-line event, and the half day event for the local Berlin/Potsdam community.
Again, we have some good covering in Commons and Wikidata, perhaps our GLAM colleagues from France can built on this when the exhibition comes to Paris in March: Licornes ! in the Musée de Cluny (March 13 -July 12, 2026)
Activities in December-January
Outreach to West Nusa Tenggara
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In December 2025, the Culture Team of Wikimedia Indonesia conducted outreach to West Nusa Tenggara. We held meetings and site visits with several partners. We are currently partnering with Bale Agung Ajar Wali to digitize the famous legend of Princess Mandalika from its original Lontar manuscript. Written in the Sasak language, the project involves not only digital preservation but also the transliteration and translation of the script.
In addition, initial collaboration prospects were explored with the West Nusa Tenggara State Museum and the Genggelang Museum to identify opportunities for cooperation in documenting and sharing cultural collections. With the permission of Genggelang Museum we have documented their collections and published them on Wikimedia Commons, which can be accessed here.
Furthermore, an introductory session on Wikimedia Commons and open licenses was conducted at Universitas Bumigora to help students and lecturers understand the importance of open access and freely reusable content. This session also served as an initial step to explore potential future collaboration with Universitas Bumigora. An official meeting was also held with STP Mataram to explore potential collaboration opportunities.
Public Domain Day in Indonesia
In January, we organized a series of activities to celebrate Public Domain Day, including Digital Curation activities, the 1Lib1Ref Campaign, and a public discussion in collaboration with Creative Commons Indonesia and Irama Nusantara. The public discussion aimed to increase public understanding of copyright terms and the reuse of works in the public domain, with a particular focus on music.
Community engagement
During December-January we also organized several activities to support Wikimedia community. Wikimedia Banjar Community held a photowalk to document Sasirangan Village as part of efforts to preserve and share local cultural heritage.
Separately, the Surabaya Community organized a community gathering and photowalk in Peneleh Village.
Knowledge in action: Barindelli collection and Wikipedia 25
Unlocking a century of opera history: the Barindelli collection goes global
A unique archive of 20th-century opera history is finding new life online thanks to a collaboration between the Municipality of Esino Lario, the family of collector Tino Barindelli, and Wikimedia Italia.
The Tino Barindelli collection consists of photographs and letters gathered over decades by a passionate music lover and correspondent of opera singers and conductors. Barindelli’s nieces donated the archive to the Municipality of Esino Lario and actively supported its digitization, with the shared goal of releasing the materials in open access on Wikimedia Commons and making them available for research and public engagement.
The collection includes over a thousand items, mainly dedicated photographs of opera singers and conductors—often produced by major theatres during opera productions—dating largely from the 1940s to the 1960s. Many are accompanied by handwritten notes, cards, or letters sent to Barindelli in response to his correspondence. A significant portion of these materials was previously undocumented and difficult to access.
As of 28 January 2026, 965 digitized images from the Barindelli collection are available on Wikimedia Commons. Of these, 570 files (59%) are already in use across Wikimedia projects, appearing 1,942 times on 1,853 Wikipedia pages in 55 languages and generating more than 230,000 monthly views. The images illustrate biographies of internationally active artists—sopranos, mezzosopranos, tenors, baritones, basses, and conductors—many of whom performed leading roles in productions at major opera houses, including La Scala in Milan.
Work began in 2025 with an initial batch of around 200 soprano portraits. In 2026, volunteer editors and Wikimedia Italia staff are processing the rest of the collection. Beyond uploads to Commons, the project includes creating and improving Wikidata items for the artists and, where possible, extracting and documenting autographs and signatures visible in the materials.
By preserving fragile originals and sharing them openly, the Barindelli collection is now supporting musicological research, education, and the illustration of Wikimedia content worldwide—bringing mid-20th-century opera culture to new audiences in dozens of languages.
See the full Commons category here
Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia: cultural institutions at the heart of knowledge sharing
On 15 January 2026, Wikipedia turned 25, a milestone celebrated worldwide. In Italy, the national celebration took place on 18 January at the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano in Turin, alongside the awards for Wiki Loves Monuments Italy 2025 and Wiki Loves Monuments Piemonte 2025.
While the event highlighted the achievements of the Wikipedia community, it also showcased the vital role that cultural institutions play in making knowledge accessible. Representatives from museums, libraries, universities, and theatres shared concrete examples of collaboration with Wikimedia Italia, illustrating how GLAM institutions can unlock their collections for public benefit.
The session dedicated to cultural institutions opened with a welcome from Luisa Papotti, President of the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano, who introduced the contributions from GLAM partners.
Alessandro Bollo, Director of the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano and former Director of the Polo del Novecento in Turin, reflected on the transformative potential of Wikimedia projects for museums. He highlighted how training staff, empowering archivists and librarians, and opening archives to wider audiences can make a real impact. Bollo also recalled that in 2020, while leading the Polo del Novecento, his institution was the first to be awarded a Wikimedia Italia GLAM grant with the “A Wikipedian in Residence at your museum” project. He cited then the “Wikipedia meets Risorgimento” editathon, where researchers, students, and volunteers improved Wikipedia articles, added references, and uploaded images in a single morning, as an example of the tangible outcomes of such collaborations.
Enrico Bertacchini, from the University of Turin, highlighted data-driven projects like Wiki Loves Monuments and the “Empowering Italian GLAMs – Tutti i musei su Wikipedia” initiative, showing how Wikipedia can boost visibility for museums and smaller institutions that lack extensive online resources.
Sandra Migliore and Cecilia Cognigni shared how libraries and university archives in Turin leveraged GLAM grants to digitize historical materials, create Wikipedia articles, and make previously inaccessible documents and images openly available. Their work demonstrates the power of Wikimedia projects to connect local heritage with global audiences.
Enrico Ferraris of the Museo Egizio emphasized the importance of positioning cultural institutions as active nodes in a larger knowledge ecosystem, sharing images and engaging staff through editathons to transform collections into accessible, structured digital content.
Simone Solinas from Teatro Regio presented one of the most recent initiatives: through the MAB grant, over 2,000 resources—including sketches, figurines, and costume designs from productions since the 1960s—were digitized, described, and released on Wikimedia projects, often before they were available in the theatre’s own systems. This collaboration illustrates how institutions can preserve their heritage while immediately making it usable for education, research, and public engagement.
These testimonies offer a vivid snapshot of the human and institutional dedication that sustains the Wikimedia ecosystem.
Image donation Dutch Book History
Image Bank Dutch Book History (on Wikimedia commons)
One for fans of Dutch book and printing history: On behalf of the KB National Library of the Netherlands, I recently added nearly 1,000 images related to Dutch book history to Wikimedia Commons:
Beeldbank Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis (Image Bank Dutch Book History).
A very diverse collection of images. If you're interested in this topic, you could do the following tasks with the images:
- add images to relevant Wikipedia articles
- classify images into other relevant Commons categories
- add images to relevant Wikidata items (P18)
- add Depicts statements (P180) to the structured data of the images
- etc.
Many thanks in advance!
Auckland Museum Student Edit-a-thon, the NZBSI Wikimedian in Residence project, and other residencies
Auckland Museum: Youth engagement & Museum tours
The Auckland Museum summer student cohort has been busy contributing to the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Local Histories Project, creating and enriching Wiki content relating to their respective GLAM placements at Auckland Museum, MOTAT, NZ Maritime Museum and The Fletchers Trust Archives.
The students brainstormed ways to encourage youth engagement with Wikimedia platforms and created posters.
As part of the wider Studentship programme, the students have visited the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) and the New Zealand Maritime Museum. At MOTAT the students visited the Aviation Hall, Walsh Memorial Library, the original Pumping Station, Te Puawānanga Science and Technology Centre and even rode in one of the iconic trams! The students were guided around the multiple sites by Alba Letts (Director of Collections), Belinda Nevin (Head of Curatorial Research) and Simon Witherill (Head of Walsh Memorial Library) and gained valuable insight into how MOTAT functions and their aspirations for the future.
They also toured the New Zealand Maritime Museum, seeing the exhibtiions spaces and back of house.They were welcomed by Elle Keen (Registrar) and Andrew Hales (Lead Photographer) and were lucky enough to sail the Auckland Harbour onboard the Ted Ashby.
Student Edit-a-thon
The cohort of students hosted an Edit-a-thon on the 31st January at the Auckland Museum research library. The event, "We Did Do It"- Celebrating the Contributions of Working Wāhine in Aotearoa focused on editing articles of New Zealand women who have worked or still work in three key areas- Arts, STEM and Law & Politics. There were 30 participants, both new and experienced editors, who edited over 50 articles and added 120 references to Wikipedia articles about New Zealand women!
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Students presenting at Edit-a-thon
Update on the Bioeconomy Science Institute WiR
As part of the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute (NZBSI) Wikimedia in Residence Ambrosia10 has recently documented and published two workflows aiming to support both the employees of the NZBSI as well as Wiki editors to share biodiversity data sourced from natural history collections and databases overseen by NZBSI.
The first workflow gives guidance on how to add Biota of New Zealand database identifiers on to appropriate Wikidata items via OpenRefine.
The second workflow gives guidance on how to extract collector data from Bionomia.net frictionless datasets and again use OpenRefine to add collection items at statements to natural history collector Wikidata items.
As part of the WiR Ambrosia10 and Dactylantha from the Auckland Museum have been collaborating on a Wikidata WikiProject creating a data model for holotype specimen Wikidata items as well as a data model for structured data statements made on natural history specimen images on Wikimedia Commons. The intent of this project is to support the creation of holotype specimen Wikidata items and the upload of holotype specimen images from both NZBSI collections as well as Auckland Museum collections.
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Adding "Collection items at" statements
Some Wikimedia residencies in Aotearoa
Giantflightlessbirds is currently working as a Wikipedian in Residence with three different organisations.
As coordinator of the Kaikōra Wikiproject, funded jointly by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand and the Kaikōura District Council, a small team of editors are working on articles about the history, biodiversity, geography, and people of this small seaside town, known mostly for its whale-watching tourism. This will culminate in a Wiki Weekend on 7–8 March where Wikipedians from around the country will visit to work on articles together and document the town for Commons.
The project started after a visit to the Kaikōura Museum as a tourist in October 2024; Giantflightlessbirds arranged with the museum manager to return in July 2025 to give a public talk on Wikipedia and run a workshop explaining Wikipedia and Commons to local heritage and tourism operators. The District Council have agreed to make available a sizeable library of professional tourism photography under an open licence, and the museum will be arranging the upload of a large collection of out-of-copyright historical photos, as well as helping clear the copyright of some local-history books for Wikisource.
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An ongoing project with the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology has been focussed on creating good Wikidata profiles and open-licensed photos of the main researchers. Giantflightlessbirds attended the MacDiarmid Institute Annual Symposium in Auckland in November 2025 and gave two talks on Wikipedia, one to the entire Institute and one to early-career researchers. He then organised a photo-shoot of PhD students, while the event photographer shot dozens of portraits of researchers, and both image collections were uploaded to Commons. The Institute is supplying numerous other photos from its image library under an open licence. The next stage of the project will be inviting selected researchers to give feedback on Wikipedia articles on their field of study, pointing out gaps on the Talk page and supplying up-to-date references. The ultimate goal of this collaboration is to demonstrate to research organisations how they increase the public impact of their research and work with Wikimedia platforms by using appropriate licensing and partnering with the editing community.
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The Aotearoa Archaeology project started at the end of January, funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand and hosted for a day a week at Underground Overground Archaeology in Christchurch. The coverage of New Zealand archaeology in Wikipedia and Commons is extremely poor; much of the project will be an education campaign for the archaeology community, ending with a presentation or workshop at the national Archaeology Association conference in June. There is a large "grey literature" of archaeology reports that are difficult to find and cite, numerous photo collections under All Rights Reserved copyright, and almost no citation of the key works of New Zealand archaeology in Wikipedia. Giantflightlessbirds will be improving a series of articles on the leading lights of Aotearoa archaeology as a demonstration, but will also be working with a selection of early-career researchers to show them the importance on ORCID, Wikidata, open-access publication, and making photographic documentation of excavations available in Commons. He'll also be showing how photos of artifacts like pottery or tin cans can be put in front of the wider audience that read Wikipedia but not archaeological journals.
GLAM Program of Wikimedia MKD – 2026 Overview
In 2026, the GLAM Program of Wikimedia MKD continues to strengthen cooperation with academic, cultural, and scientific institutions across North Macedonia. The program is dedicated to expanding free and open knowledge by supporting institutions in sharing their research, collections, and expertise through Wikimedia platforms, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata.
Theme for 2026: Botany of Macedonia
The central theme of the GLAM Program for 2026 is Botany of Macedonia. This focus aims to document and promote knowledge related to the country’s plant diversity, botanical research, and natural heritage. Through targeted activities and partnerships, the program seeks to improve the quality and scope of botanical content on Wikimedia projects and to increase public access to reliable, expert-based information.
Role of the GLAM Program Coordinator
The GLAM Program Coordinator plays a key role in implementing activities throughout 2026. One of the planned core activities includes photographing herbarium collections in cooperation with academic institutions. High-quality images of preserved plant specimens will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under free licenses, making them freely available for educational, scientific, and encyclopedic use. The coordinator also supports partner institutions by facilitating collaboration, organizing activities, and providing guidance on Wikimedia standards, open knowledge practices, and free licensing.
Wikipedians-in-Residence
The GLAM Program for 2026 includes the engagement of Wikipedians-in-Residence within partner institutions. Their role is to act as a bridge between the academic community and the Wikimedia movement by:
- Supporting the creation and improvement of Wikipedia articles related to botany, biodiversity, and natural sciences;
- Assisting with the publication of institutional materials under free licenses;
- Providing training and ongoing support to staff and researchers interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects.
Institutional Cooperation
In 2026, Wikimedia MKD continues its cooperation with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. This collaboration builds on existing partnerships and focuses on botanical research, herbarium collections, and scientific expertise. Through joint activities, the Faculty’s resources and knowledge will be more widely represented on Wikimedia platforms, contributing to greater visibility and global accessibility.
In addition, cooperation with the Institute of Macedonian Literature, initiated in 2023, continues as part of the GLAM Program. This long-term partnership contributes to the enrichment of Wikimedia projects with scholarly and literary content, demonstrating the program’s commitment to collaboration with both scientific and humanities institutions.
Conclusion
With a clear thematic focus on the Botany of Macedonia, continued cooperation with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and active involvement of GLAM coordinators and Wikipedians-in-Residence, the GLAM Program of Wikimedia MKD in 2026 supports sustainable knowledge sharing and open access to scientific and natural heritage. The program strengthens the connection between academia and Wikimedia projects, enriching freely available knowledge for a global audience.
Explore Historic Portraits from the Museum of Photography in Kraków
Museum of Photography in Kraków: Practical GLAM-Wiki Training
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In January, Wikimedia Polska supported the Museum of Photography in Kraków in its first steps within the GLAM-Wiki ecosystem. After the museum, with technical support from Wikimedia Polska, uploaded its first photographic collection to Wikimedia Commons, we organized an online training for staff from the collections and inventory department.
The uploaded collection includes over 60 historical photographs from the studios of Walery Rzewuski and Awit Szubert, among other 19th- and early 20th-century photographers. The images primarily depict portraits of notable figures, including politicians, actors, and painters, offering valuable material for illustrating biographies and enriching structured data.
The hands-on session focused on practical ways of working with the collection: illustrating Wikipedia articles and enriching Wikidata entries. The training was led by Grzegorz Gogacz, Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Warsaw Public Library, who shared his experience in categorizing and reusing complex image collections on Commons.
In February, we are planning a follow-up online working session focused on jointly exploring and practically using the Museum of Photography’s collection on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
The global GLAM-Wiki community is warmly encouraged to explore, reuse, and creatively build upon the Museum of Photography in Kraków’s photographic collection on Wikimedia Commons, available in the category:
Media contributed by the Museum of Photography in Krakow.
January in Wikimedia Serbia
Edit-a-thon and Workshop Dedicated to the Independent Art Scene
Wikimedia Serbia organized an edit-a-thon and workshop in Novi Sad dedicated to the independent art scene, in collaboration with What Could Should Curating Do. The workshop aimed to increase the visibility and improve content related to contemporary art on the Serbian Wikipedia. The first workshop was held on January 24 at the premises of the Association of Collective Artistic Practice and brought together participants who worked on expanding articles and developing high-quality free content. This initiative contributes to promoting the local art community and strengthening participants’ digital literacy.
Launch of the #1Lib1Ref Editing Campaign
Wikimedia Serbia officially launched the #1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference) reference-editing campaign, which runs from January 15 to February 5, 2026. This global initiative invites librarians and all interested contributors to improve Wikipedia by adding high-quality sources and citations, thereby enhancing the encyclopedia’s verifiability and reliability. The campaign is carried out worldwide as part of the celebration of the anniversary of the English Wikipedia, with the support of numerous Wikimedia communities. On the Serbian Wikipedia, the campaign is organized in cooperation with the University Library “Svetozar Marković” and the Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska.
Engagement in the Content Partnerships Hub Initiative
Wikimedia Serbia has actively positioned itself within the global Content Partnerships Hub initiative, an important program that brings together Wikimedia organizations and volunteers worldwide who are interested in collaborating with various partners to freely share knowledge. The Hub seeks to strengthen cooperation with institutions such as museums, libraries, archives, scientific institutions, and international organizations, in order to make their content available on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Museum in Chiasso, Alpine Museum, Women Monuments
Museum in Chiasso
Starting the year with the New Years brunch and the editathon in Chiasso celebrating Wikipedia's birthday has been great. Twentyfive years is a quarter of the century. The museum in Chiasso welcomed the group of Wikimedians and explained the history of the collections. The museum is part of the Centro culturale Chiasso using an architectual logo that represents the geographical shape of the involved institutions. The project page reflects all the different activities of the day as well as the results developed. The tour and the different cultural spaces as cinema, gallery, bookshop, collections, exhibition have been interesting and full of cultural history.
Alpine Museum
The museum opens specially for Wikimedians to provide a Community space in the center of Bern. There were around 12 Wikimedians writing on alpine topics. New Articles were developed Dania Allenbach and Alpine Museum as well as wiki data entries and a list on cultural heritage in Bern. The museum opens specially for Wikimedians as on Mondays they are closed. It is a fruitful cooperation as the museum is located in the center and part of museum district in Bern. Finally the community space takes shape. The group is quite open and a registration is not necessary. Further informations can be found on the project page.
Women Monuments
The book publication on women monuments in Switzerland has been released on January 17th in Zürich. At the hackerspace Bitwäscherei there was the installation with art objects on the topic of women monuments by Ursina Gabriela Roesch, Rani Le Prince, Laura Kärki and Sandra Becker. As women monuments are underrepresented it has been difficult to find them. The artist Frauke Beeck had been asking people about them. She went from village to village on her discovery tour. The context of the discovered monuments can be found on the project page on Meta.
Sharing more of the Enamels of the World
Khalili Foundation
I have been exploring the possibility of another bulk image upload. The Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World has 118 images already uploaded, covering about 90 art works. This is only a minority of the full collection, and there are many more high-quality images that I have access to, with catalogue descriptions (thanks to Dror, the curator!). The next stages are for me to create a spreadsheet of the collection, import it into Wikidata to describe the artworks, select the images to upload, then upload them as a batch to Wikimedia Commons. After the enamels, there are a lot more scientific instruments in the Islamic Art collection for which good images could be uploaded.
New articles with images from the Khalili Collections include Uzbek Wikipedia's article about Ahmad al-Buni and an article in Azerbaijani about the Masnavi, a poem by Rumi.
I attended the Wikimedians In Residence Away Day at the University of Leeds. I presented about how I use Wikidata to track activity across the wikis relevant to the Khalili Collections and Memory of the World work, and learned about the new tool for organising event registrations. We won't have to use Eventbrite for edit-a-thons again, and Wikimedia's own event registration tool makes it easier to follow up on the participants' activity.
Most of the work this month has been on the Memory of the World project, about which there is a separate report.
There are no new translations or featured images this month.
The stats tool reports 4,131,650 image views this month.
Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members
A new Wikidata property relevant to the BHL-Wiki working group
Brodie Hoare from the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Siobhan Leachman continue to collaborate on drafting a data model for type specimen Wikidata items as well as a data model for Structured Data on Commons to be used on specimen images. The WikiProject formed for this collaboration can be viewed at WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model.
As part of this work another Wikidata property proposed by Brodie have been accepted. This is the location collected property. Siobhan and Brodie continue to work on the proposed data model for type specimens and to map that model to the Darwin Core data standard terms. Documentation and workflows continue to be drafted and once complete will be open for feedback from the wider Wiki community.
Error report from the December 2025 BHL harvest of Author and Title identifiers from Wikidata
In December the BHL technical team again undertook their three monthly harvest of Author and Title identifiers from Wikidata. The error report of identifiers needing checking/fixing can be found here. Work continues to correct these errors both by the Wikidata community and the BHL cataloguers. Any help given to resolve Wikidata issues would be gratefully received.
BHL author template
A reminder that a Wikipedia template exists to link the Wikipedia article of an author to their works held on BHL. This template can be added to the External Links section of the author Wikipedia article. For more information see the BHL author template page.
Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality
Let’s talk about Wiki + GLAM + gender!
Dear Wikimedians,
TL;DR: Invitation to collaborate with project on partnerships between Wiki and GLAM that tackle gender inequality.
We are happy to announce the project Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality!
During the GLAM Wiki Conference in Lisbon last year, we took part in the workshop “GLAM and Gender – Harnessing Knowledge and Practices to Shape Our Collective Future,” organized by Tila Cappelletto and Lucy Hinnie. We learned about initiatives aimed at closing the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement that were developed in partnership with GLAM institutions. There, we realized that many Wiki organizers around the world have been involved in similar projects, but that these experiences are scattered and not easily accessible. This led us to see the need to collect and share these cases, learn from them, and support other gender organizers in developing their own initiatives.
The project was born from the desire to create a space where people can share information about initiatives that promote gender equality within Wikimedia and beyond, developed in collaboration with GLAM institutions. Our goal is to foster exchange and collective learning from both past and ongoing experiences.
We have started to collect these in our page — for example, the partnership between Wiki Editoras LX and the Belém Library in Portugal as well as numerous initiatives led by Wikiesfera in Spain and by the Wikimedia Community User Group in Sénégal. We know there are many more projects throughout the world. We are interested in events, encounters, and any other movement (short-, medium-, or long-term) connecting GLAMs and the Wiki world towards gender equality, ongoing or past.
If you have been involved in any event or project connecting Wikimedia, GLAMs, and gender, we would love to hear from you! We also invite anyone thinking about organizing these kind of initiative in the future to join us, so we can learn from each other. We will have our first meeting on February 13, and will love to see you there!
Connect with us on our Telegram channel, send us an email (wikiglamgender@gmail.com), follow us on Instagram (@wikiglamgender), and subscribe to our Meta page.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Mariana and Essenam
Manuscripts on Arabic Wikipedia
This is the sixteenth monthly report of the ongoing work to improve the representation of the UNESCO Memory of the World international register on Wikimedia projects. This is supported and fully funded by the Khalili Foundation, with the involvement of UNESCO and Wikimedia UK.
Recent activity
We bid farewell to Clara Weber, the consultant working with the UNESCO team, who ended her placement at the end of 2025. Clara contributed a great deal to the Wikidata data set and to updating the online MoW International Register and the UNESCO web site.
This month I have been:
- Improving the data set on Wikidata, especially for the inscriptions that have few properties. All inscriptions now have at least seven statements, for a total of 8,213 statements in the data set.
- Replacing a lot of broken links in English Wikipedia with current links to the MoW International Register
- Writing a paper about the open data set we have released on Wikidata, how it is already being used on the Wikimedia projects, and the new visualisation and research possibilities it offers.
- Collecting sources for a new article about the Documentation Centre for Indigenous Peoples.
An Upworthy article used a quote from UNESCO's documentation of this project: specifically a quote from Khalili Foundation director Waqas Ahmed about preserving cultural heritage.
New articles
View statistics
The Massviews tool reports 4,300,551 views on English Wikipedia articles that link to the MoW International Register.
The GLAMorgan tool reports 115 million image views in January for images related to the MoW International Register. This is likely an overestimate.
Two key Wikidata Requests for Comments, relevant for future GLAM-Wiki work
Two key current Wikidata Requests for Comments (RfC) - please provide feedback
At this moment (January 2026), two key Requests for Comments (RfCs) are open on Wikidata. They are about fundamental policy and scope changes to Wikidata and are directly relevant for communities working on GLAM, Wikidata and Wikibase.
The RfCs don't have a lot of input from GLAM and underrepresented communities at this moment (yet). If the RfCs affect your community's work on Wikidata and Wikibase, please consider responding and adding your feedback.
- Mass-editing policy Request for Comments. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_policy
- Notability Policy Reform Request for Comments. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_policy_reform
The RfCs have been briefly presented and discussed during the January 27, 2026 Global GLAM Call. Check the calls' notes for some context and background, a summary of both RfCs, and the points that were discussed.
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